"I thought, this should be a piece of cake. This man [Reza] has brought other Muslims to the Christian faith," Berger said.

"He has brought Muslims to the Christian faith and Christian baptism. I mean, if he's a fraud he's a very bad one since he's bringing people to the Christian faith," he said. "But still they [the Migration Board] denied him. And that made me look into what is going on?"

Anti-Christian BiasWhat's going on, according to veteran Swedish immigration lawyer Gabriel Donner, is a badly run asylum process and, in some cases, an anti-Christian bias.

"When you apply for asylum you have to present your case," Donner told CBN News. "If you claim to be a convert you need to show some evidence of having converted: certificate of baptism, membership in a congregation, or something else of that sort."

But Donner said the crucial evidence is often missing from asylum applications because too many state appointed lawyers simply will leave it to the convert to take care of it themselves.

The asylum seekers are then at the mercy of immigration officials who may not understand Swedish law, what it means to be a Christian, or how dangerous Iran is.

Asylum Process: A lottery?"All of these, together, result in a sort of lottery where some people win and some people lose," Donner said.

Some of the losers are Ali Roshan, Mahtab Shafadi, and their little girl. They are Iranian Christians who left Islam. They now face deportation and danger in Iran.

"We have told our families in Iran that we are Christian now, and they have disowned us. So we don't have a family to return to. Our blood is now halal; it is holy for Muslims to kill us," Shafadi said.

A Swedish immigration official tried to comfort her by saying they would probably be thrown into an Iranian prison, but not killed.

"My asylum request was denied and I was ordered to leave the country. I don't have any identity. I can't even use medical services. I can't work," she said.

She's now in hiding. She said when she tried to testify about her Christian faith to immigration officials, they thought she was lying.

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"Officials do not seem to understand why a Muslim would become a Christian. They asked me, 'Why didn't you become a Jew?'" Homeira said.

Jabbari said an immigration official told him that when he is deported to Iran, all he needs to do to keep from being arrested is tell everyone he's a Muslim, not a Christian, and he'll be fine.

To that Jabbari replied, "After I'm baptized? I'm a Christian. You cannot say these things to me."

"There's a lot of bias regarding Christian converts because the standard argument is, 'Well, nobody converts to Christianity out of true belief. Why would anyone do anything of the sort?'" Donner said.

Easier to Deny ChristSwedish Pastor Bengt Sjoberg, who spends most of his time trying to rescue Christian asylum seekers facing deportation, said migration officials "are ignorant about religion."

"They don't know the difference between Catholic Church and Pentecostal. They ask a lot of stupid questions about the Christian faith," he said.

"Almost every week about five or six churches call me and say these [immigrants] who are coming to our church they are real converts. They are members in our church," he explained. "But the Migration Board doesn't believe these people are Christians. What shall we do?"

Mikael Ribbenvik, director of Operations for Swedish Migration Board, in an interview with AP Television News, described an agency that seems to be overwhelmed by asylum seekers.

"We have about a thousand people coming every week from many countries of the world and that's our first challenge," he said. "Then, of course, we have to have a proper procedure and give people answers in due time."

"If we say no, you can go to the courts but of course the volume in the system is a challenging task for us," he said.

But it shouldn't be hard for Swedish officials to grasp that Iran is a very dangerous place for Christians.

The case of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani brought worldwide attention when he was convicted of apostasy and sentenced to death before being acquitted finally in 2012.

Just a few weeks ago, a U.S. congressional panel heard from Iranian Christian Nagmeh Abedini, whose husband Pastor Saeed Abedini, an American citizen, has been given an eight-year prison sentence for "threatening Iran's nation security."

He was building an orphanage.

Pastor Saeed's attorney said his client's prison sentence amounts to a death sentence. He's already been tortured and beaten in prison and has internal bleeding.

Jabbari was a famous singer in Iran and refused to help Islamic regime, getting him in trouble before and making him an even bigger target if he's sent back.

"He's been put in prison. They tried to recruit him as an informant, his pastor Cai Berger said. "We don't know what's going to happen to him in prison. Is he being tortured? Is he being left alone? We don't know this."

But these Christians have all confessed they've given the matter to God.

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